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An 8-23 fourth quarter took Yorktown out of the playoffs against Brackett last Tuesday in Divine.

Yorktown took the lead early maintaining it for three quarters going into the fourth 53-48. It was in the final minutes when the Wildcats saw their lead go in awry.

Yorktown coach Lane Shands said, “Brackett went into full court man-to-man and we turned the ball over.”

Wyatt Koricanek put 21 points on the board. Tanner Koricanek hit three three-pointers and scored 17 points for the Wildcats.

The team had 17 steals and three blocks. The hurt was in rebounding. Yorktown hit 44 percent of their field goals rebounding only eight off the board. Defensively, Yorktown had 20 rebounds to Brackett's field goal percentage of 52.

Will Anderson (eight points in the first quarter) and Eli Julian (19 points in the first half) helped put the Pirates out in front. What was more surprising came in the fourth quarter. Nordheim felt the pressure from Leakey and managed to find a way to draw fouls scoring 14 points in free throws. All-in-all, Nordheim hit 29 of their 43 attempts at the free throw line.

Cold wind blasted Cuero Softball Field on Tuesday night, Feb. 24, when the Lady Gobblers hosted the Flatonia Lady Bulldogs. Regen Dunn picked up right where she had left off in the Navarro Tournament, posting a no-hitter and 13 strikeouts, as Cuero defeated Flatonia, 11-1, in their final game before the start of district.

Flatonia jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top half of the first, but it would be the only time they were in front. Dunn walked the first batter of the game, and she came in to score after two wild pitches and a groundout. From there, Dunn was in control.

Following a rain-out in their scheduled season-opener against San Antonio Southside, Cuero opened the 10th Annual Gobbler Classic with a win over Edna, 7-3, and a tie against Rockport, 4-4. John Rodriguez earned the win in game one, tossing three shutout innings, while Joey Baker drove in three of the team’s four runs in game two.

Edna took an early 2-0 lead in game one, plating unearned runs in the opening two innings.

Junior Colton Blackwell took the start on the mound in the Gobbler’s season-opener, going three innings and allowing three runs, only one earned.

Blackwell helped his own cause, scoring on a Jeremiah Diaz RBI double in the second to cut the lead in half.

Following a rain-out in their scheduled season-opener against San Antonio Southside, Cuero opened the 10th Annual Gobbler Classic with a win over Edna, 7-3, and a tie against Rockport, 4-4. John Rodriguez earned the win in game one, tossing three shutout innings, while Joey Baker drove in three of the team’s four runs in game two.

Discombobulated – a transitive verb meaning to upset, confuse, or frustrate. That is what may have happened to the Nordheim Pirates when they faced the McMullen County (Tilden) Cowboys at home court on Tuesday, Feb. 16.

It started right off as the Pirates trailed 2-17. In the last three minutes of the first period, Nordheim made a run picking up another 13 points ending the period 15-22. It seemed that they got their rhythm but it was short-lived. In the second period the Pirates scored 5-points against the Cowboy’s 15. Nordheim never saw it coming. The Cowboys came from the top of the circle, then the short corners and the wings. Tilden was in control and Nordheim had more turnovers than they did shooting ending the half 20-37.

Mason Williams may be heading to regionals after placing second in his weight division at the Karnes City Invitational powerlifting meet held on Feb. 13 in Karnes City.

Yorktown coach Dustin Nessel said, “Mason will probably make it. We will know more after the qualifying meet next week.”

Williams had to move up to the 123 pound weight class weighing in at 116.4 pounds. The change did not effect his possibility to go to the regional meet with a 45 pound improvement in his total lift placing him in sixth place in the region and just 65 pounds shy from third place.

Bailey Parrett improved his total lift by 65 pounds placing him 15th in the region.

Following are the results of the meet.

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The Yorktown girls powerlifting team were seriously pumping some iron as they improved their overall lift by 310 pounds. That was the case when four girls earned points to place them in ninth place at the Karnes City Invitational Power meet in Karnes City on Feb 13.

Lauryn Campos had the greatest weight improvement by 100 pounds, not to mention that she went from 148 weight class to 132. She earned fifth place.

Another big jump was Paige Nance improving her total lift by 70 pounds earning sixth place. Alexis Longoria also dropped a weight class from 114 to 105 improving her total lift by 50 pounds and earning third place.

Yorktown coach Dustin Nessel said, “Alexis has a good shot at making regionals. We will know more after the qualifying date (Feb. 20).”

Robin Naranjo improved her total lift by 35 pounds earning a spot in fourth.

Cuero High School hosted their annual baseball alumni game on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Gobbler Field with the 2016 Gobblers coming out on top, 5-2.

The alumni jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top half of the first, but the Gobblers evened the scored with one out in the bottom of the first and took the lead in the same inning on a passed ball.

Cuero added two more run in the home half of the third, as they prepare for the start of their season and the Gobbler Classic from Feb. 25-27.

Cuero High School’s boys and girls golf teams competed at separate events from Feb. 11-13, followed by a District Preview on Feb. 17. The Lady Gobblers attended the meet at the Republic Golf Club in San Antonio on Feb. 11, hosted by Warren High School. The boys team played at Pleasanton Country Club from Feb. 12-13.

The girls team placed fifth overall out of eight teams. Jocelyn Villafranca led the Lady Gobblers with a score of 92. She was followed by Abby Bridges (95), Mary Kate Krueger (107), Marlee Schiffbauer (133) and Kerstyn Saenz (140), for a team total of 427.

“The course is pretty tough, and we have some big 6A teams we are up against, but we are holding our own,” coach Wes Condra noted during the competition.